WESTRALIAN OUTRAGE.
SMITHSON TO BE HAMGED. (Received 10.10 ajn.) PERTH, this day. Tie Executive Council has decided that the death sentence on Smithson for the I Woodlupine outrage be carried out on August 25. • At tie trial, the medical evidence showed that the girl, Frances Compton Young, had been violated, and that death was caused by heart failure, resulting from shock and exhaustion, due to struggling and partial suffocation. Evidence was also given that 'blood and other incriminating stains had been found on the clothes belonging to David Horatio Smithson, who was found guilty and sentenced to deaths
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 167, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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98WESTRALIAN OUTRAGE. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 167, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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